WASHINGTON — In her first visit to the Capitol since her shocking election loss, Hillary Clinton on Thursday called on Congress to address the “epidemic” of fake news that she said was a danger to the nation. Clinton was speaking at a ceremony to honor retiring Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid when she diverted from her compliments to address “one threat in particular that should concern all Americans.” She called on Congress to stop the “epidemic of malicious fake news and false propaganda that flooded social media over the past year.” One such fake news story had Clinton running a child

(Video) Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe said Thursday his family´s pet chicken named Hillary died right before the election. McAuliffe, a Democrat and a top Clinton ally, was asked about his four chickens in an interview with the Atlantic. "I hate to say this, one chicken died," he said. "About a month before the election, Hillary died." "We´ve got Hillary, Jr. now," he added. "She is bright and fluffy and making a lot of noise and healthy as an ox." McAuliffe´s wife, Dorothy, told the Richmond-Times Dispatch in 2015 that the couple promised their children they could have chickens if they

Hillary Clinton´s communications director Jennifer Palmieri is refusing to back down from her claim that Donald Trump won the White House on the backs of white supremacists. ´I don’t know whether the Trump campaign needed to give a platform to white supremacists to win,´ she writes in the Washington Post today. ´But the campaign clearly did, and it had the effect of empowering the white-nationalist movement.´ The former White House official and Clinton aide wants the president-elect to ´own up to it.´ Trump has said he does not ´want to energize´ racists and denied last month in an interview that ever did. Palmieri

President Barack Obama says the color of his skin has ´absolutely´ contributed to white Americans´ negative perceptions of his time in office. The president said in a Wednesday special looking back on his legacy, ´I think there´s a reason why attitudes about my presidency among whites in Northern states are very different from whites in Southern states. ´Are there folks whose primary concern about me has been that I seem foreign, the other? Are those who champion the "birther" movement feeding off of bias? Absolutely,´ he told CNN´s Fareed Zakaria. David Axelrod, a senior advisor to Obama at the White

During an interview with NPR, Fox News host Megyn Kelly explained how she feels that President-elect Donald Trump’s continuous attacks on the mainstream media represents a “dangerous phase” for America at the moment. Her concern is that it will lead to a larger portion of the American public not believing what they hear from the press. Appearing on Fresh Air, Kelly spoke with host Terry Gross and told her about being targeted by Trump on Twitter in the aftermath of the first GOP presidential debate. She noted that it soon devolved into death threats from his supporters and a torrent

(Video) Hillary Clinton was greeted by sobbing, ecstatic women on her way out of an event on Capitol Hill in Washington on Thursday. The ardent supporters thanked the Democratic presidential nominee for running for president, albeit unsuccessfully. The group of 20-something-year-olds cried as Clinton shook their hands. Clinton was in the company of former vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine, a Democratic senator from Virginia. Clinton spoke at Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid´s portrait unveiling in the Russell Senate Office Building. "This is not exactly the speech at the Capitol I hoped to be giving after the election," Clinton said. "But

"If you ask me where has been the one area where I feel that I´ve been most frustrated and most stymied, it is the fact that the United States of America is the one advanced nation on Earth in which we do not have sufficient common sense gun safety laws," Obama told Fareed Zakaria in the TV special, "The Legacy of Barack Obama." Despite national anger following mass shootings throughout his two terms, Obama was unable to convince Congress to pass legislation that would change those policies, including enhancing background checks and not selling firearms at gun shows and other

First Lady Michelle Obama was in the giving spirit on Wednesday. The stylish Mrs. Obama appeared at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling in Washington, DC, where she helped hand out gifts donated by White House staff to military families. Mrs. Obama arrived looking very relaxed in a blunt cut gray sweater. (Photos) The first lady was carrying a red gift sack full of presents to hand out to the children of Marine Corps reservists. She was joined at the event by stars from Disney Channel shows Descendants 2, Sofia Carson and Cameron Boyce as well as Bizaardvark stars Madison Hu and Olivia

White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said during a press conference Monday it was natural for World War II veterans to be “embittered” about Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s visit to Pearl Harbor, but they should get over it for the sake of America. It was announced Monday that Abe will be the first Japanese leader to visit Pearl Harbor since it was hit by a surprise attack that killed 2,403 Americans and brought the U.S. into World War II. The visit reciprocates President Barack Obama’s visit to Hiroshima earlier this year for the anniversary of the atomic bomb attack

CNN’s Fareed Zakaria spoke with President Obama for his big primetime special tonight on the president’s legacy, and one of the issues they touched on was race in America in the past eight years. “Attitudes about my presidency among whites in northern states,” Obama said, “are very different from white in southern states.” He asked, “Are there folks whose primary concern about me is that I seem foreign, the other?” The president answered his own question by saying, “Absolutely.” And given how Obama specifically brought up birtherism in his answer, the next clips to pop up were of President-elect Donald

JAMES ROSEN, FOX NEWS: A.B., you mentioned in the previous panel that we just had this sort of deal a day approach of the president-elect where he is descending on different companies and seemingly making ultimatums but otherwise cutting deals with them and so forth. We have a quote we would like to show you. This is from a former Bush administration economic advisor Greg Mankiw quoted in The Washington Post about this saying quote, "When a chief exec is making individual calls to individual companies, he´s in some sense acting like a central planner. We have a lot of

Bush administration alumnus and GOP operative Karl Rove didn’t hold back any punches Wednesday, blasting president-elect Donald Trump for recklessly using Twitter to disseminate false information about a “major American company.” In an interview with Fox News’ Bill Hemmer, Rove argued that Trump’s criticisms about Boeing’s price-gouging were not only profoundly inaccurate, but likely had a “negative impact” on the company´s stock prices. [snip] Here’s the tweet that will one day be cataloged in the “post-truth” section of the Library of Congress’ digital archives. [snip]To be clear, “post-truth” is a euphemism for “lie.” As Rove pointed out, Trump´s